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✨Builder | Teacher✨ Teaching the next generation of builders how to amplify their work with the use of agents. No vibe coding, real engineering!

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

While considering what I want to do next, I've been cognisant of the fact that I'm slightly less excited about the idea of jumping into another role where I'm solving many of the same problems – just with newer tools.

I've always thrived when applying broader thinking and working on problems and solutions that are beyond me and working with incredibly skilled teams that help me grow and learn and are equally excited by this endeavour.

Technology that will either be foundational or play a larger role in the future is particularly interesting to me right now.

I'd love to hear more about projects others are working on and anyone who resonates with what I'm saying. Doesn't have to be a role, if you just want to share what you're doing, I'm keen to hear about it.

I want to feel inspired and in the meantime I'll be plugging away and exploring my own ideas as well.

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

Desperately looking for a new iOS role. Contract or full time. If you are looking or know someone looking please get in touch. #iosdev #swiftlang #mobile #ios

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

@krzyzanowskim @afterxleep I was literally about to reply with a similar sentiment.

I had high hopes for it but so far it’s been incredibly lack lacklustre.

[Modular @Modular]

Mojo 🔥 1.0 is in beta! Beta 1 marks the first step towards finalizing 1.0 later this year, which will bring a new level of language stability. The beta lands safe closures with a new capturing syntax, conditional trait conformance, and major variadic improvements. Plus, Mojo has its own home at https://t.co/j3TzPUkEDr.

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

What I can do with my experience and amazing tooling has no limits. AI isn’t the tool that enabled this for me. My experience and perseverance was all I ever needed and it’s true now more than ever.

If you’re looking for an engineering mindset that’s not limited by tooling, get in touch. I can help you transform your team, tooling and hopefully your mindset.

Open to full time or consultancy roles.

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

The Vampire Effect — anyone else feel the energy drain after coding-by-prompt day in, day out?

There is real value in using AI for engineering work. I’m not questioning that.

But over the past few months, I’ve had a lot of conversations with engineers who are starting to describe similar side effects.

It starts simply enough. The first few prompts of the day can feel almost magical.

You get that hit of excitement when something works. You’ve built something that might previously have taken days or weeks. Maybe something you couldn’t have built alone.

Then the second phase begins.

Now you have to review it.

Not just check whether the code compiles, but understand the assumptions, the trade-offs, the edge cases, the architecture, the tests, the things it changed that you didn’t expect it to change.

You’re getting “so much” done, but you’re also carrying more context, more diffs, and more uncertainty.

As the day goes on, the context window fills up. The agent starts drifting. The back-and-forth turns from exciting to frustrating.

By the end of the day, you can feel more drained than if you had written the code yourself.

I think part of it is that the sense of achievement changes.

You did create something. Maybe more than you thought possible. But the work can feel less like building and more like supervising, correcting, validating, and absorbing complexity.

That’s a very different cognitive load.

I don’t think this is just an individual productivity issue. I think it’s becoming a team design issue.

How do we structure engineering work so AI helps us move faster without quietly draining attention, ownership, and judgement?

I’m still finding my way through it.

Curious how others are handling this. Are you changing your workflow, your review habits, or your team norms around AI-assisted development?

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

💯

[vicki @vboykis]

I don’t buy the idea that libraries will go away since everyone can just write their own now. Maybe for small internal company use-cases. But libraries are not just code, they’re time invested in edge cases, they’re hundreds of hours of human eyes. I don’t want to replace that.

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

There’s so many exciting things going on across the industry right now but I have to say I’m personally most excited about companies that are working on foundations and infrastructure.

This is definitely the focus I’m personally looking for in my next role.

[Chris Lattner @clattner_llvm]

It's an extraordinary time in AI, and particularly for Modular given we're building the unifying layer that allows AI developers to have choice to scale across a range of hardware with different tradeoffs and capabilities.

Please reshare this post if you're excited about what Modular is doing, apply directly through our site if you're interested in any role, and look out for Mojo 1.0 beta 1 next week!!

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

@benjitaylor @morganlinton YAY!

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

Anyone got an invitation to the Notepad.exe application? Please share! https://t.co/NcZY0tMYRr

Looks interesting. Keen to try.

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

/cc @benjitaylor

[Kavsoft @_Kavsoft]

Animated Dialogs Like Family App Using SwiftUI | iOS 17+ | Xcode 16
https://t.co/oJ2HDexUYM

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

My favourite response yet from ChatGPT. I provided context that I have extensive engineering experience just not in game dev 😂 Basically it just called out Unity devs lol.
#unity3d #GodotEngine #swiftlang

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

I love gaming with my 8 year old son, lots of fun with "It takes two" lately.
Switch 2's coming tho and some games he's just too young for and I've realised I didn't previously use the friends feature all that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So... anyone on Switch or PS5? Send me a DM 😬

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

Some nice features:

- It's generic over any Hashable set of values
- If your value is also Codable, you get AppStorage/SceneStorage free!
- It conforms to SetAlgebra and Sequence
- Nice public API for expand/collapse/toggle
- Pass around like any other SwiftUI type

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

Writing restorable, collapsable Section, Disclosure Table & Outline views is tricky to get right.

So I wrote something that handles it for you, and its really easy to use.

Nice API and a `subscript` to get/set and access a binding 😬

#swiftlang #iosdev

https://t.co/mxw2mNk3o7

[Chris Nicholas @ctnicholasdev]

This is crazy—you can drag a GitHub repo into Gitlip and start editing immediately.

Not only is everything instant, but it also supports realtime multiplayer throughout.

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

@NatalieMarleny killing it as always! Excited to take a look.

[Natalie Marleny @NatalieMarleny]

Gitlip Editors: Demo Launch 🌷

Gitlip is a collaborative coding platform, and today we’re launching the demo for Gitlip Editors - our take on collaborative coding environments.

If you've ever wanted to collaborate on Markdown or code with the convenience of Google Docs, our demo is for you.

[GraphDevs @GraphDevs]

The Graph Builders Office Hours - GRC-20 Hackathon: Everything You Need to Know with Yaniv Tal https://t.co/1lmaNXcD5Z

[s ʜ  ᴘ s @shaps]

A better Sign in with  in SwiftUI.
https://t.co/U65hEjSwcM

An environment "action" that supports async/throws for an intuitive implementation you can use anywhere.

Check the comments for example usage.
#swiftui #swiftlang #iosdev

[Geo @geoprotocol]

We're so excited to co-host the first GRC-20 Hackathon with The Graph Foundation!

Use AI x knowledge graphs to earn $GRT. Let's organize the world's public knowledge & information and kickstart web3! 🧑‍🚀